Odd Offer On Craigslist

Or it could be something as simple as someone fishing for an email address...
CL is notorious for this also.. either way avoid such offers.

 

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Unfortunately, by NOT immediately dismissing this ridiculous offer, the damage may have already been done. Hope I am wrong but when you venture down the rabbit hole, who knows what will happen...

 

And that's exactly the reason a smart criminal offers someone more money than was being originally asked. They know that people will respond to the lure of more money. Like others have said also it doesn't matter where you intend to meet them either because in other actual cases that have occurred using craigslist the person simply doesn't show up for that meeting. Yet someone else is there who knows what kind of vehicle you'll be in and then follows you when you leave to find out where you live, etc often for nefarious purposes.

 

Maybe he seen a rare coin or error coin in your lot and wanted to make sure he got the lot.

 

I diagnose far too much popular TV drama, here. In a hospital program you know the chap who gets out a ladder will fall off it, and the guy walking in the street in a cop show will get mugged or worse.

In real life nothing of the sort happens, so while it is as well to be aware of the remote possibilities, expecting the banal and harmless is more reasonable.

 

I've done a few craigslists deals, never had a problem. That said obviously bad things can happen. I met a few times at McDonalds, and a couple times at a local bank. I live in an area without many thugs though, probably more reason to be cautious if you are in L.A. or Chicago or some other crime ridden area.

I've also never had anyone offer me over my asking price

 

What damage?

 

That ended up being the case. He meant to type $150

 

CL gives you the option to hide your email address. They just use a randomly generated email as a relay.

 

When I lived in Washington, near Tacoma, there was a series of Craig's List transactions that went bad and all were buy different people. The worst was a man selling some of his wife's jewelry. He ended up dead. They caught the four involved but his family won't have him back.

 

Ah, that's what he would say, now that the dastardly plot has been exposed to the forensic scrutiny of some of the brightest minds in the Nervous Old Ladies Knitting Circle.

Next week, "I think my neighbour is plotting something against me, he said Hi! is a funny way"

 

When I lived in Washington, near Tacoma, there was a series of Craig's List transactions that went bad and all were by different people.

There were over a million that did not go bad but good news is no news.

 

You are correct. And we're more likely to remember the incredible.

 

You are probably more likely to die driving on the way to the deal than get killed during the deal, but that's just my guess.

 

Be there done that with a Duncan Phyfe dining set and coins other times. Same routine. Buyer offers more than asking. You reply. Potential buyer requests place to meet. I always meet at the local donut shop I say. Within the hour the buyer replies that he needs to leave town immediately for a family or business emergency BUT he wants the item no less and he'll send you the payment asap and his agent will pick up the item(s). Buyer again replies a bit later that he just sent by overnight mail the offer price BUT he say's, he messed up and sent $(X amount usually several hundred more) by accident! And as soon as I receive his certified (fake) check in the morning fed-ex, deposit his certified fake check into my bank account and IMMEDIATELY within the hour by Western Union send him back the extra money he sent by 'accident'. By then it's to late, you have been scammed. It's so common and frequent that now I just go along with the scammer and let them waste their time and money sending overnight parcel's. And as before. If you are dealing with Craigslist items, always meet at a local restaurant, never at night, never at your home and DO NOT give out your address.

 

Yeah...have had the same stunt pulled on me. As soon as I ask for a phone number to discuss it with them they go away. I always meet at a bank that has a police officer stationed there and I always tell them what I'm doing there so he keeps an eye out. Also, I've never had no one cancel on me and then they do the loose trail thing and follow you home but now got to be aware of that too. Always good to get the license information sent in an email beforehand as well and do some due diligence tying it back to the phone number, if it doesn't match, don't meet. There are a number of phone number lookups on the internet these days for this purpose.

 

I like the idea of winding up the fraudsters. I have a souvenir in the form of a bank cheque for a couple of thousand pounds sent to me from Nigeria. The cheque is of course a fake. I could not be bothered to send anything and waste my money on postage, but a dog turd would be appropriate and picture his little face as he opened it.

At least the trier was out the cost of a stamp and a fake cheque.

 

Even worse, once you attempt to deposit the check, you've committed a crime. And who do you think the authorities are going to go after: you, or some small time fraudster in Nigeria? Yep, you guessed it.

 

There is a reason that avarice is one of the deadly sins. It never turns out good.